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Samsung Sought To Beat IPhone With Galaxy Nexus, Apple Says — Apple Inc. (AAPL) said its largest smartphone competitor, Samsung Electronics Co., set out to steal market share by selling a Galaxy Nexus phone that copies its features, including one that makes the iPhone's Siri virtual personal assistant so compelling.

Apple and Samsung CEOs did speak but ‘there was no resolution’ — We'd heard rumors that the CEOs of Apple and Samsung were getting together today for one last court-mandated meeting, but their discussion proved unfruitful. Samsung attorney Kevin Johnson just told Judge Lucy Koh that “The CEOs did speak... There was no resolution.”

What WSJ got wrong about Groupon — Are VCs really backing away from Groupon? — FORTUNE — Have you heard that early Groupon (GRPN) investors are bailing on the company? Well, some of them. Maybe less than half. But one of them is a big name, so it must mean the entire Internet sector is screwed.

How Eduardo Saverin Sold Facebook Ads in 2004 — The knock on Facebook is often that it doesn't have its ad strategy figured out. That might be, but the company courted advertisers pretty much from the get-go. — As captured in “The Social Network,” Facebook's then-CFO Eduardo Saverin …

App Developers: Stop Abusing Push! — Mobile app developers are abusing push notifications and it has to stop. Although it's widely understood that it's not an effective strategy to continually ping users with non-critical updates, app developers can't seem to help themselves to the free marketing channel that is the opt-in push.

E-books and the Personal Library — As I write this, my personal library is somewhere between the Bay Area and New York, heading east. I don't know if the truckers have read Kerouac, but the books themselves may be experiencing a sense of adventure. Some of them have made this American road trip …

Maxthon mobile Web browser surfs to the iPhone — A free iOS app, Maxthon is now available on the iPhone as well as the iPad. — iPhone users now have yet another choice for a mobile browser. — Maxthon has finally made its debut for Apple's iPhone. As of today, the new version …

How Instagram Could Have Cut a Better Deal — In hindsight, perhaps Instagram should have cut a different deal with Facebook. — In April, Facebook agreed to acquire Instagram, the hot social media photo-sharing site, in a deal valued at the time at about $1 billion.